Software Engineering Jobs in Cheshire

Software Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 19 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +31 -23
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 47 135 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.80% 8.83% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 11.14% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11 124 23
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -22.58% +37.78%
75th Percentile £84,000 £67,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £96,250
North West median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +5.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 570 1,212 887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 82.49% 79.27% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 245 918 469
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,000 £25,420
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,782 £89,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in Cheshire

Software Engineering
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +6 5 £74,500 -6.88% 2
Crewe -4 3 £55,000 -16.98% 1
Northwich - 3 £42,500 - 2
Alderley Edge +5 2 £47,500 +5.56% 5
Congleton - 2 - - 1
Middlewich - 2 - - 1
Sandbach - 2 - -
Winsford +6 1 - -
Macclesfield +5 1 - - 2
Runcorn -1 1 - - 1
Neston - 1 £50,000 - 3
Wilmslow - 1 £80,000 - 3
Software Engineering
North West

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (27.66%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) GNU Octave
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (80.85%) AWS
2 35 (74.47%) Azure
3 18 (38.30%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (59.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (61.70%) GitLab
2 28 (59.57%) Bitbucket
2 28 (59.57%) Cucumber
2 28 (59.57%) JIRA
2 28 (59.57%) Maven
2 28 (59.57%) Selenium
2 28 (59.57%) SonarQube
2 28 (59.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.38%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (70.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 30 (63.83%) Finance
3 28 (59.57%) Banking
4 16 (34.04%) Retail
5 15 (31.91%) Corporate Banking
5 15 (31.91%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (91.49%) Software Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Developer
5 2 (4.26%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) PHP Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Angular Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Junior
6 1 (2.13%) Junior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.13%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (65.96%) React
2 30 (63.83%) CSS
2 30 (63.83%) HTML
3 29 (61.70%) Kafka
4 28 (59.57%) JPA
4 28 (59.57%) Redux
4 28 (59.57%) Spring
4 28 (59.57%) Spring Boot
5 18 (38.30%) RESTful
6 17 (36.17%) REST
7 16 (34.04%) CSS3
7 16 (34.04%) HTML5
8 15 (31.91%) Jest
8 15 (31.91%) Sass
9 13 (27.66%) Hibernate
10 10 (21.28%) .NET
11 5 (10.64%) Node.js
12 3 (6.38%) Laravel
13 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
13 2 (4.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 28 (59.57%) Enterprise Software
1 28 (59.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.64%) Cyberattack
2 5 (10.64%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.26%) Blog
3 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (80.85%) Agile
2 36 (76.60%) Microservices
3 31 (65.96%) CI/CD
3 31 (65.96%) Full-Stack Development
4 30 (63.83%) DevOps
5 29 (61.70%) Containerisation
5 29 (61.70%) Performance Optimisation
5 29 (61.70%) SDLC
6 28 (59.57%) Front End Development
6 28 (59.57%) Test Automation
7 21 (44.68%) User Experience
8 20 (42.55%) Mentoring
9 15 (31.91%) Migration
9 15 (31.91%) Responsive Web Design
9 15 (31.91%) Strategic Thinking
9 15 (31.91%) TDD
10 14 (29.79%) Clean Code
11 13 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (14.89%) Scrum
13 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (80.85%) JavaScript
2 35 (74.47%) Java
3 32 (68.09%) SQL
4 16 (34.04%) TypeScript
5 7 (14.89%) C++
6 6 (12.77%) C#
6 6 (12.77%) Go
6 6 (12.77%) Rust
7 5 (10.64%) Python
8 3 (6.38%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) C
9 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.13%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) DV Cleared
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (59.57%) QA
2 15 (31.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 30 (63.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (63.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (59.57%) Solace
2 2 (4.26%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.13%) Ping Identity